Another

Here's another one. The distance spanned in these videos is about 30 feet each, constrained by the length of the room. Monday and today, we went up and walked on the track at the gym and went for a total of about 350 feet each day. Like I said, every day feels stronger and smoother. God Bless, have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Video...Finally!

The long awaited and much ballyhooed video has finally arrived. We started doing walking like this in early October, once I was able to keep my trunk up without assistance. We try to do it at least once, and when we're lucky twice, per week, and each time it feels much easier than the last.
As you can see, they're helping me pull my leg forward; I can help a little bit with that but it's more of a reflexive action by my muscles, which usually starts off strong and peters out towards the middle of the walk. The main thing I am working on doing myself are trunk control, meaning keep my trunk centered and upright (not face-planting/ass-planting!), weight shifting from side to side to aid my steps, and also locking my leg into extension, when the knee is straight and the muscles are engaged and I can put weight on them.
This is 100% weight bearing, which is very important for bone density, muscle tone etc. I'm exhausted when I'm done, but it's a great feeling!

Therapy Update

I took a small vacation to do some soul searching, I just needed some time off, but now I'm back, ready to update you guys. Well, that's not totally truthful. I ended up punching a hole in my computer screen after the debacle of a football game Saturday, and I've only now gotten it fixed. Okay, that's not true either. I was just busy and lazy, OK? Geez, get off me.
The move I'm doing above is one of my trademarks, the 'Crouching Tiger, Seated Cameron'. It's taken me months to master, but now I'm performing it at ease. We've been working a lot lately on my core strength and balance, and it's really starting to pay off. My posture is much improved and my back strength, particularly my lower back, where I don't have full sensation but increasing muscle control, has been a revelation. It's helping me in multiple aspects of my therapy, particularly in walking, of which I'll hopefully get video soon, and truly is the key to my success. Like Confucious, with his sage wisdom ('Baseball wrong. Man with four ball, cannot walk.' - Confucious), I'll try to provide you a maxim to live by: 'Man who not do daily situps get flabby man gut'. You hear that Mackenzie?